Poems

No strike, venom, or dismay forms imagined sign, when to Truth's blaze without delay the ambush we consign. Promptly shake off insidious thought of pain, sin, fear.

ALWAYS you are cared for. ALL WAYS you are blessed.

     I waited patiently for the Lord;            and he inclined unto me,               and heard my cry.

I can only be what God is seeing of me. And I can only see what God is knowing all to be.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

All power, energy, force, sovereignty, are Yours, Father. How magnificent Your law of good interpreting the universe.

Sometimes, as here I sit in church— this place so filled with love, so free from fear— God's presence is so strong and near I know I am His child, much loved and dear. LEE REEDER.

ANGELS. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality.

When he said "Be opened" did he doubt? Instead he walked straight forward in that eternal line of truth which, before Abraham, was there to deliver and to save. It opened then, it opens now as we, pressing on, walk this same straight line and, like him, looking up and giving thanks have no doubt.

Sight held tight through will or fear is sight that clouds the far and near When sight is sought in matter's field it cannot harvest Spirit-yield Then set sight free from time and place to rest in Soul's uncrowded space DORIS KERNS QUINN.